Word: floats
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...table with any of the offenders. Something fantastically imaginative will be necessary to soften the rigidity of both sides. One possibility might be a meeting of leaders of the great powers in Cairo, as soon as it seems safe or feasible. We do not mean that President Eisenhower should float like Cleopatra down the Nile on a bubble-top barge, nor that Egyptians should be induced to shout "Aisha Khrushchev," through the streets of Cairo, nor that Pandit Nehru should stage a passive demonstration. But the collective action of these figures would not fail to make a very strong impression...
...optimistic diagnosis was right. During a vacation at his summer home in St. Patrick, Que., St. Laurent golfed almost daily, splashed around so regularly in the family swimming pool that he finally learned to swim (previously he could only float on his back). He went back to Ottawa not only completely restored from last summer's fatigue, but imbued with more political drive than he has shown for several years...
...Britain's Chancellor of the Exchequer Harold Macmillan gave a ten-minute talk from the pulpit of the Methodist Church his late mother used to attend as a girl, but when the plate was passed, the man who holds Britain's purse strings had to float a modest loan to raise enough U.S. currency for a contribution...
Furthermore, as companies expand and float new securities, still more money is being drawn away from existing issues. For the first nine months of 1956, almost $6 billion worth of bonds were floated v. $5.2 billion for the same period last year. In addition, new stock issues in the first three weeks of September alone climbed to $169 million v. only $55 million in all of August. Thus, the September market slump was not so much an urge to sell as a reluctance to buy; the trading was the lowest September level in two years. Most of the selling...
...solid with oil activity-war-weary landing craft being converted into tenders for offshore drilling rigs, big yards piled high with pipe, well-cementing companies, plants where the giant offshore rigs are fabricated. At intervals, veinlike side canals branch off into the marshes, where oilmen have dredged passageways to float equipment into their fields and float oil barges back from the wells. Virtually every big company has fields, tank farms, refineries along its banks clear down to Corpus Christi-Texas Co., Standard Oil of N.J., Superior Oil, Magnolia, Kerr-McGee Pure Oil, Cities Service, Shell Oil, Gulf, Humble...